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French mathematician

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For the English patristic scholar and Benedictine abbot, see Jacques de Billy (abbot) (1535–1581).Jacques de Billy (March 18, 1602 – January 14, 1679) was a French Jesuit mathematician.
Born in Compiègne, he subsequently entered the Society of Jesus.
From 1629 to 1630, Billy taught mathematics at the Jesuit College at Pontà Mousson.
He was still studying theology at this time.
From 1631 to 1633, Billy taught mathematics at the Jesuit college at Rheims.
From 1665 to 1668 he was professor of mathematics at the Jesuit college at Dijon.
One of his pupils there was Jacques Ozanam.
Billy also taught in Grenoble.
He also served as rector of a number of Jesuit Colleges in Châlons-en-Champagne, Langres and in Sens. The mathematician Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, who had been a pupil of Billy's at Rheims, became a close friend.
Billy maintained a correspondence with the mathematician Pierre de Fermat.

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